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Justifying The Means

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The Identified Victim Effect

You talk in the essay about something you call an identified victim effect and an identified cause effect. We are much more reluctant to harm a person who is identified, or not to help a person who is identification than a stranger. In the case of the choice between allowing the virus to spread and the lock down, what we have is not identifiable victims, because we don't know in advance who the us will kill. So er i think we are bias to give more weight to the identifiable cause, rather than the causes that are much more disperate and difficult to identify but which we can still estimate will cause losses of life....

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